Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MacLaine has inherited her fair share of this sort of charm. In her second book about herself, she skips winningly over the quicksands of human nature and power politics, and still lands on her feet. You Can Get There from Here is basically a comeback saga. In 1971. she stumbled badly in an inane and short-lived TV series called Shirley's World. In the role of a global journalist, MacLaine had hopes of playing herself: an openhearted, open-minded, outspoken female. The show's producers wanted a clever career gal who keeps her pantsuit on and plays...
Broad Strokes. The tour covered thousands of carefully supervised miles, from bustling Canton to the Yenan, where Mao and the revolution began their own comeback saga. "I found my self thinking with such broad strokes in China," writes MacLaine. This turns out to be one of the understatements of 4763, the Year of the Hare. She enthusiastically quotes official statistics, re ports having seen only happy Chinese faces, and announces the arrival of the "new man," free of competitive greed...
...Bruins led, 2-0, early in the second period, but Chicago rallied to tie the game on goals by Pit Martin and Stan Mikita. Wayne Cashman then began the Boston comeback by converting a Bobby Orr rebound in the third period Subsequent goals by Glenn Sheppard. Terry O'Reilly and Dave Forbes completed the Bruin outburst...
...point in the contest did Columbia make any sort of comeback or even threatre to make one. The Crimson's narrowest advantage was 2-0, but since that, occurred with the game, just serve second old no one appeared, overly panicked...
...Crimson, despite having the momentum, was unable to do any further damage in regulation play, but shortly after the overtime began. Walstein's slap shot gave Harvard its comeback...